Sentences with phrase «into urban environments»

Retailers across the nation are rightsizing their bricks - and - mortar stores, driven by several factors, including omni - channel, showrooming, improved inventory management and the desire to expand into urban environments...
From her early investigations into urban environments and notions of citizenship to more recent research into women's contributions to modernism, Geyer's work continuously seeks to create spaces of critical, collective reflection on the construction of histories and ideas that are otherwise marginalised or obscured.
An interactive exhibition considers the many ways designers incorporate spaces for play and fun into urban environments.
Although many other developments and technologies have come along to help us reproduce almost like rabbits, Laland argues that «if it were the case that humans were adapted to environments in the Pleistocene [epoch ending more than 10,000 years ago] but not the Holocene [modern era, which followed], you would expect human populations would have shrunk when they moved into urban environments
All this and more without skimping on a more refined look that reveals that the desire for adventure can be transferred also into a urban environment, as the body - colour hard top - available for the first time on the Rubicon trim level - contributes to underline.
His work invites the spectator to enter an intimate, personal sphere, but also to go out in the streets, into an urban environment full of rude confrontations.
In fact, too little to even measure — unless the humans are packed together into an urban environment, with their A / C units blowing hot air over asphalt and onto surface station thermometers.
He does this by looking at whether windy days, with outside air mixed into the urban environment, shows a different change than calm days.
Further advantages are that the cylindrical structure with the vertical»S» blades occupies less space than the average turbine, the structure is robust, and practically as well as aesthetically it can integrate easily into the urban environment.
Perkowitz + Ruth is also designing a project in midtown Los Angeles that will bring two big - box retailers into an urban environment.

Not exact matches

Green walls have been around for many years but with energy efficiency becoming so important these days and everyone wanting to do their part for the environment, we are seeing more of these living green walls being introduced into urban areas offering visual appeal and a host of environmental benefits.
«Lead abatement is an issue that is not limited to our urban cores but extends into our suburban and rural centers as well,» said Commissioner of Environment and Planning Dearing.
«We want to take an honest look at that to see how do we modify those times to make sure we still have the spirit of a new day which J'Ouvert represents without going into an environment that is not conducive to the urban environment,» Adams said.
Whether that's an energy efficient building that increases productivity for tenants or an adaptive reuse project that transforms a forgotten address into an urban destination, our developments generate superior value, inspire end users, and improve the environment we live, work, and play in.
«Our other research study into London's air quality, published this week in Atmospheric Environment, investigated the underlining factors responsible for the air pollution exposure in urban environments.
But data on how warming might affect women in urban environments are scarcer, and Hidalgo's initiative will support research into that.
Putting more nature back into humanity's urban environments might not hurt either.
However, tens of thousands of leaky auto engines whizzing over already polluted urban environments can't compare with the damage done to a pristine environment by a single oil tanker such as the Exxon Valdez, which spilled 10 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound in Alaska in 1989.
According to experts, sustainable urban design needs to take into account citizens» emotional responses to their environment.
The system should work in any urban environment that can be outfitted with sound detectors and premapped into a computer.
«These first findings already reveal the potential that the site has for further research into the environment of the urban elites and for questions as to the luxurious furnishing in urban area.»
Node Smith, ND A new study from the University of Colorado at Boulder shows that people raised in an urban environment without pets around have a less resilient immune system and may be at higher risk for mental illness.1 This research furthers the conversation of the «hygiene theory» into realm of mental health, connecting some -LSB-...]
Mexico City's Via Verde Project, for instance, is transforming highway pillars into gardens to help cleanse the air, beautify the urban environment and lower drivers» stress levels.
On September 11, 2001, the attack and collapse of the gigantic World Trade Center Towers caused an enormous release of toxic substances into a densely populated urban environment.
With Native American protagonist Conner Kenway at the helm, Assassin's Creed III rushed into 2012 with a revamped offense - oriented combat system (to help quell complaints of the slower, more reactionary system of past games), a large world featuring both woodland and urban environments, the addition of cooperative multiplayer, and a story that featured many iconic American heroes such as Benjamin Franklin, Sam Adams, and George Washington.
Based in Houston, the nonprofit in which McDonald serves as national director of strategic initiatives places low - income, urban high school seniors into challenging work environments such as Continental Airlines, Exxon, and NASA.
In 2010 npower launched a national competition to help reverse this trend and to transform ten areas of grey built up urban school environments into spaces that allowed children's eco-imaginations to bloom.
Putting SEL into practice in such a widespread manner, especially in major urban school districts, will allow CASEL to demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach in creating better learning environments, helping kids succeed in a variety of ways, and reducing problem behaviors.
How the influence of the Reggio Emilia approach is reaching into urban public school environments with diverse populations.
Steering is light, but the Rio is delightfully nimble in urban environments, tracks adeptly on straightaways and is easy to guide into turns.
With an improved engine and more horsepower, the car moves away from the urban environment and steps more and more into the racing scene with better acceleration, aerodynamics and improved road grip.
It is very easy to maneuver into tight parking spaces, which is extremely important in an urban environment.
The life cycle of the Crenosoma is similar The larvae exist in an infected dog's faeces until picked up by a slug or snail because foxes can also pick up this parasite their poo can also be infected producing, even more, larvae into the environment especially as they roam in more urban areas.
Instead of incarceration and death, a number of communities have instituted programs in which the cats are trapped, vaccinated, and sterilized, then released back into the environment where they often aid in rodent control on farms and urban areas.
We also love the concept of our gentle giants taking over streets and buildings and transforming the urban environment into a dreamlike landscape».
The game's intro throws you directly into a hellish urban environment of concrete and twisted metal.
If you are into scenic, eerily silent urban environments, sightseeing in New York, then you should also give the game a try.
The game unfolds entirely in Mexico City, where numerous, meticulously researched and detailed environments will deliver complete immersion into the future of urban warfare.
Art had turned the urban environment into indoor representation, thanks to Mark di Suvero and Franz West.
Combining pattern and decoration typical in fashion and craft with found natural history objects, both Bradford and Greene propose a distinct new camouflage for the animal needing to blend into the ever - expanding urban environment.
She explores the possibilities of performance art as a way to continue her research on the relationship between people and objects, and to further investigate the commoditization of culture, assimilation, and how cultural meaning is transformed in the multicultural urban environment and is absorbed into new social contexts.
The films draw uponarchitecture's relationship to its natural environment, its integration into urban systems and juxtapositions with the local vernacular.
Hershman Leeson's trickery here trips into recklessness, the video - installation equivalent of yelling «fire» in a crowded room or, as it were, in the urban environments of San Francisco and Portland, Oregon.
Instead of installing finished work within the gallery, Para-sites & Proto - types will integrate art into the urban architecture surrounding Open Source, celebrating how art nurtures the environment and how the environment nurtures art.
This is true even of Diebenkorn's California cityscapes, in which the man - made urban environment dissolves into a pastoral patchwork of California light and shadow.
Forming a plant - animal - human trilogy with Edible Estates (est. 2005), a series of front - yard food gardens, and Animal Estates (est. 2008), initiatives for urban wildlife architecture, Domestic Integrities focuses on the interior environments of humans and the ways in which local resources are digested into their dwellings.
Shona Macdonald's collages look at how manmade works interrupt natural landscapes and Sandy Litchfield's collages blend the urban and natural landscapes, showing how constructed environments seep into the unconscious.
Variations VII was intended to transform an architectural space, The Armory in New York City, into a broadcast space, in which telecommunications technologies such as radio, television and open telephone lines would bring global media transmissions and the urban environment of New York into a live performance.
It's a lovely way of introducing a little more nature into our urban hubs without doing any damage to the environment.
Just as the nascent Arte Povera movement incorporated the physical remnants of its surroundings into its works, Kounellis used the visual signifiers that he saw in his own urban environment to develop a new, more poetic discourse.
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